WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Monday is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, marking a half-century of fascination with one of the most infamous nautical ...
On the brilliant fall afternoon of November 9, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald glided out of Superior, Wisconsin, loaded with 26,000 tons of taconite pellets bound for Detroit. The vast expanse of Lake ...
Although the revival has introduced millions of new listeners to maritime music, Dean Calin of Racine noticed that only a ...